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[Koh]

Cloud, despite really only mattering to one single game, has endured as an icon for twenty years.

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Cloud isn't random.

Still, if that's all it takes, so many other characters should've been in before Cloud, who existed before him and still exist now, and it hasn't happened.  I still stand by it being a random decision.  Like picking a nametag out of a hat about most iconic video game characters, and going with it.  We could really talk about this all day, and how so many characters close to Nintendo or not have stood the test of time for just as long or longer than Cloud, and are still popular today, mostly Japan like Roy, or not.  Slimes from Dragon Quest, any of the Belmonts or Dracula from Castlevania, Arle or Carbuncle from Puyo Puyo, Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot (though his existence is often the butt of jokes now because of how much his modern games have downgraded...), and the list would just go on and on.